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Literature Reference Books (Print)
Use Illinet Online (IO)to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 45 other Illinois academic libraries.
Gale Research Series:
Black Literature Criticism
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Drama Criticism
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Twentieth Century Literary CriticismMagill Series:
Critical Survey of Drama
Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Critical Survey of Short Fiction
Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism
Magill's Survey of World Literature
Masterplots
Masterplots II: American Fiction Series
Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series
Survey of Contemporary LiteratureOther Reference Sources for Literary Study:
American Women Writers
American Writiers
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Popular World Fiction
Voices of Multicultural America
Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young AdultsLiterature Reference Sources Online (Reference Works, Articles and Databases)
Gale Literary Databases Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Gale Literary Index is a master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source. It provides quick and easy access to 40 of Gales's literary series. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.
JSTOR is an online library currently containing 87 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals, but is an electronic archives of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. All full text.
MLA International Bibliography
Periodical Abstracts - Some full text articles available
Project Muse A collection of online journals. All full text.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
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Citing Sources
MLA Style:
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers R808.042 M685 1995
Citing Internet Resources - from MLA
Bibliography Styles Handbook - MLA Format - from the University of IllinoisLiterature Resources From the Web
Weblit
Resources for American Literature
Top Ten Resources for American Literature
Top Humanities Web Sites
Literature Hotlist
Literary Resources on the Net
Andrea's Literary Links
Literary Web
Literary Index
Literature Resources for the High School and College StudentsSearching the Internet
Yahoo: Arts: Humanities: Literature
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
Search Tools
Getting the Most out of Guides and Search Engines
Evaluating Quality on the Internet
Electronic References and Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources